Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Save or Delete?, A New Look, Click, Click, Click, Ding!

1. It's emotionally exhausting for me to delete my text messages. Some are too sentimental to delete, so I go through them one by one and delete only those that are dispensable. Consequently, I see the sender's name, who are mainly my loved ones, and the opening line. Some are funny, some are serious, all are important. I am too obsessively compulsive to ever just delete the whole kit-and-caboodle. By the end of the ordeal I've read a creative combination of opening lines:

"It's packed real No hurry That's up top you Hi Lee OK I was with 3 I'm stuck in the Channel 13 ??? What do you Not yet I start We can see the On our way I love you a lot..."

2. She cut Marian's hair and gave her some little bangs. She looks like a different little girl now, still and always adorable.
3. From behind a closed door in another room comes the sound of typing... on a typewriter! It's a pleasant, old-fashioned sound.

2 comments:

I like your hodgepodge of text messages. I feel the same way - I especially loved it when baby Monroe had his mom at home with him the first three months and I would get Happy Friday Aunt Lynn! text messages with his smiling face. :)

"The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But who gets excited by a mere penny?...It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted with pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. what you see is what you get."